I want to have form1 with some controls/methods as a base class and create form2, 3 etc with additional controls/methods at design time to inherit from form1.

The references to visual inheritance in Help talk about the "Add Inherited Form" item in the "Project .. Add" menu, but VB2005 doesn't have it. Does this mean I can't inherit forms in VB?

I suspect that item has just moved. Some of the items move around depending on how you have Visual Studio configured. Try the Project menu's Add New Item command. Inherited Form should be one of the choices.

Note that you must build the project with the form that you want to inherit from first. The form must be compiled or the command won't list it.

Rod


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I'm using VB20005 Express at the moment and I can't find Macros either. I guess Microsoft have removed them in order to encourage me to buy an upgrade!

Thanks anyway, and Happy New Year

Odd. I haven't used the Express edition so I didn't know that wasn't included. So there's no Macro submenu in the Tools menu?

The chart at the following URL compares the different editions and doesn't mention either of these differences.

    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b4z62wxz(VS.80).aspx

You might try opening Tools\Customize and seeing if the Commands tab has a Macros entry.


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Nope - no macro or visual inheritance in the Express edition anywhere!

Well, it turns out that visual inheritance is there in VB 2005 Express - it's just the inheritance picker that's unavailable.

You can do it manually, by creating a new class file, typing "inherits xxxform" at the top, and lo an behold, you get a visual interface for your class that you can add to.

This is the reference...

ms-help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80/MS.NETFramework.v20.en/dv_mancli/html/cb3e1c0f-3d2a-4cdc-b0d1-c92eae567ffb.htm

The "Inheritance Picker" link gives more of the options.